From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linux EFI <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:46:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1371746775.2372.11.camel@dabdike> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130620162916.GA25727@srcf.ucam.org>
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 17:29 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:53:39AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> > Can't we detect Macs from some of the UEFI strings at boot time and do
> > the right thing with the boot switch (which can be overriden from the
> > kernel command line if we get it wrong)?
>
> Yes, and then our behaviour differs from Windows and so we'll have
> inevitably broken some other system.
Unless you can think of the way out of this, we seem to have the stark
choice of behave like windows or allow kexec. For the server market,
kexec wins, so either we find a way not to have to make the choice or we
do something automatic to make it fairly painless.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-20 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-17 17:50 [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping Borislav Petkov
2013-06-17 17:50 ` [PATCH -v2 1/4] efi: Convert runtime services function ptrs Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 18:15 ` [PATCH] [IA64] sim: Add casts to avoid assignment warnings Luck, Tony
2013-06-20 23:43 ` Tony Luck
2013-06-21 10:26 ` Fleming, Matt
2013-06-17 17:50 ` [PATCH -v2 2/4] x86, cpa: Map in an arbitrary pgd Borislav Petkov
2013-06-17 17:50 ` [PATCH -v2 3/4] x86, efi: Add an efi= kernel command line parameter Borislav Petkov
2013-06-17 17:50 ` [PATCH -v2 4/4] x86, efi: Map runtime services 1:1 Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 11:56 ` Matt Fleming
2013-07-03 6:19 ` joeyli
2013-06-19 12:52 ` [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping Ingo Molnar
2013-06-19 13:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 13:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-19 13:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 16:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-19 16:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 16:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-19 16:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 16:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-19 16:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 21:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21 6:34 ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-19 16:50 ` James Bottomley
2013-06-20 9:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-20 9:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 9:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-20 9:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 9:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 14:33 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-06-20 14:53 ` James Bottomley
2013-06-20 16:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 16:44 ` Jiri Kosina
2013-06-20 16:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 16:46 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2013-06-20 16:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 17:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 17:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 18:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 18:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 18:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 18:17 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 18:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 22:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21 7:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 10:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21 14:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 16:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-02 7:29 ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-19 16:05 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-19 17:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-19 17:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 17:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-19 17:50 ` Borislav Petkov
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